I have just written a poem... Confessions of a Movie Addict. Or, The Holy Barbarian Blues....

King of the Beatniks:

[reading his poem at a nightclub]
I have just written a poem... Confessions of a Movie Addict. Or, The Holy Barbarian Blues. - - "I was a teenaged movie monster. I cut my teeth on Clara Bow. I dug Rudolph Valentino. I was hooked on all the vampire movie queens. I rode with the posse, and cut 'em off at the pass. I was thrilled by The Thing from Outer Space. Man, I was a mess. And I was turned on by Shakespeare, Plato, Aristotle, Edgar Guest. I saw "Charley's Aunt" in the original, uncut version. Crazy, man, crazy. One day I wandered drunk, dazed, wild-eyed, into an art movie house - you know, loose smocks, with subtitles... Now I'm cool, man, cool. I've kicked the movie habit. I'm off to make the interstellar scene. Aloha, dosvedanya, au revoir, goodbye. Later, man, later."